Roosters hooker Victor Radley lists Bondi Beach pad for $1.3m for house upgrade

Roosters fan favourite Victor Radley might be only 23, but he’s already upgrading his eastern suburbs real estate listing his Bondi Beach apartment amid plans to buy a house.

The born and bred Bondi local was 20 when he bought the two-bedroom spread as a first home for $1.2 million just a year after he made his National Rugby League debut for the Roosters against the Newcastle Knights.

Radley, known to the club’s fans as “Victor the Inflictor”,  was forced out of the 2020 season last June after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.

In the meantime he has listed his pad in the block of 12 with Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay’s Jason Boon ahead of an April 22 auction.

Buyers have been given a guide of $1.3 million to $1.4 million.

Still in Bondi Beach, Yenda Lee, the owner of the Bing Lee retail empire, has snapped up a sub-penthouse in the Bondi Pacific in a company name for $7.6 million from food distributor John Hatzimanolis.

The pad is a near neighbour to the sub-penthouse bought by the late art collector John Schaeffer for $7 million five years ago, although the most recent prestige sale in the Pacific was the $12.4 million off-market sale by The Agency’s Steven Chen on behalf of Canadians Tracy and Scott Gibner, former chief of Qtrade online brokerage.

Yenda Lee already owns a pad in the Pacific, bought for $2 million two years ago, but local sources say it is her son Lionel who is expected to use the newly acquired luxury pad.